Monthly Archive for September, 2007
When Mental Illness Affects Post-Surgical Recovery
Recently I heard about a patient who was involved in a motor vehicle accident. He suffered a major pelvic injury and required surgery to fix his pelvis. His only other medical history was that he suffered from significant anxiety and panic disorder.A few days after his surgery he became very agitated and was apparently found in his room on his feet. The problem was that his surgeon instructed him to not bear weight on his affected side. Thus, the patient was probably affecting the surgical repair when he was up on his feet.
Psychotherapy What?
Here's an interesting Google statistic. I searched on "psychotherapy innovation" and "engineering innovation." Here are the hits: 1,210,000 for psychotherapy innovation, which is under 1% of 136,000,000 for engineering innovation. But I estimate that there are 45% as many psychotherapists as engineers (based on stats from the Occupational Outlook Handbook and an educated guess or two on my part). This is hardly a scientific exercise, but how can you ignore it?
How You Can Get Better Medical Care – Part II
In my last post, I talked about the motivations behind the way many physicians practice medicine and the importance as a patient to understand the economic dynamics behind your doctor's practice. In essence, your physician needs to make a living while helping people get better. He really is not going to go above and beyond his call of duty unless he is either emotionally, intellectually, or financially compelled to do so.
Ethnic Medicine – Beyond Bidil
While Bidil's patent for general use runs out in 2007, its FDA approval for "selective" use on people of African origin runs out in 2020. Despite being hailed by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2005 as a step towards the "promise of personalized medicine," the question why two established anti-hypertensive drugs (hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate have been around for many decades) in combination is promoted as a major medical breakthrough remains unanswered.
Popular Posts
- Mind Games - Science's Attempts at Thought Control
- The Science of Stuttering
- Risks of Personalized Medicine
- Intelligence - Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
- Is Grief a Mental Illness?
- The Brain's Buying Power
- The Cost of a Good Night's Sleep
- Inside Your Brain on Holiday
- Risk Factors for Recurrence of Depression
- Salvia Divinorum - DEA Control over Magic in the Mint
Future Posts
Latest Posts
- Intelligence – Do You Need it to be Successful?
- A Trip for Terminal Patients
- Memory Ain’t What It Used to Be – And That’s Good for Psychotherapy
- The Science of Stuttering
- Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
- Beer – The Smarter Drink
- Macroeconomics and Suicide
- From Nymphomania to Hypersexuality
- Commitment – It’s the new Love
- Religion and Depression – Cause or Effect?
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